March 2009

Design Review 2010 Released and Supporting PDF’s

by Donnie Gladfelter on March 30, 2009

in DWF

  As you might expect, the new release of AutoCAD has brought with it a new release of Design Review. It’s been a free download for a few years now, and until this year it’s interface had remained largely the same. Perhaps the most noticeable feature of Design Review 2010 is the ribbon. Personally, I [...]

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CAD Geek Poll – What are your 2010 upgrade plans?

by Donnie Gladfelter on March 25, 2009

in AutoCAD 2010

AutoCAD 2010 (and most other 2010 products) were launched this week, and the question begins to shift from “what’s new” to “will I upgrade”. Judging from the last poll I ran here on The CAD Geek, it seems the vast majority of you (45%) are running the latest release (2009), but what does the future [...]

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AutoCAD 2010 and new Exchange Site Launched

March 24, 2009

Great news! You know all those cool new features like parametric constraints, the contextual ribbon, dynamic block enhancements, etc that myself and every other blogger in the blogosphere have been raving about for months now?  Until today those posts were pretty much “come and see the cool features you could be saving time with (if [...]

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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Gets Ribbonized

March 20, 2009

Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2007 the trend has undoubtedly shifted from the traditional interface employing menus and toolbars, to the “new and improved” ribbon. Users of vanilla AutoCAD got ribbonized with last year’s 2009 release. While a classic workspace was still shipped with the product, the ribbon was an integral part of the default [...]

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Acquiring, Converting, and Using DEM Downloads in Civil 3D

March 11, 2009

While importing surface data from Google Earth is probably the easiest way to get some conceptual topographical data into your drawings, DEM’s have to be a close second.  For the uninitiated, DEM’s or Digital Elevation Models could be described as a surface whose data is organized in a grid.  This is fundamentally different than DTM’s [...]

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Great offers for the Unemployed

March 8, 2009

Regardless of how you get your news, the reports over the last week have been especially depressing. 651,000 jobs were shed in February alone, or 15 jobs per minute, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.1%; the highest since 1983. Sadly neither my company, nor my family has been immune. My dad was let go from [...]

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